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• N.n. de Meulmeester, Arnemuiden († 1951)
• Gerard Jan Maarten Groenendijk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Tiemen Smit, Amsterdam († 2020)
• J. W. Eijkenboom, Sittard, Sittard-Geleen († 1984)
• Becky Joy van de Merwe, Salt Lake City
• Jeen Dirk BUISKOOL, Hoogezand-Sappemeer Groningen Netherlands († 1961)
• August Jacob Sinkeler, amsterdam, Nederland († 1951)
• Alko Herman Nicolaas (Alko) van der Wiel, Gouda († 2014)
• Aad Voois († 2018)
• JoAnn Madelaine Gagliano, East Meadow, Nassau, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2013)

• Christijntje Petronella Suijver (68), Haarlem
• Augustus Desmet (88), Uitgeest
• Ardina van Druenen (61), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barend Luytze (79), Amsterdam
• Adrianus de Visser (78)
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• Anna Gerrits van der Molen (82), groningen
• Charles Cyrus "Charley" Rhodes (83), Bessville, Bollinger County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Bestevaar (32), Amsterdam
• Adriaan Hammers (71), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1949 » Alan Longmuir, Scottish bass player and songwriter († 2018)
• 1949 » Gotabaya Rajapaksa, 8th president of Sri Lanka
• 1949 » Lionel Richie, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
• 1950 » Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi politician, 76th Prime Minister of Iraq
• 1951 » Paul Muldoon, Irish poet and academic
• 1951 » Sheila McLean, Scottish scholar and academic
• 1951 » Tress MacNeille, American actress and voice artist
• 1952 » John Goodman, American actor
• 1952 » Vikram Seth, Indian author and poet
• 1953 » Robert Crais, American author and screenwriter

• 1929 » Emmanouil Benakis, Greek merchant and politician, 35th Mayor of Athens (b. 1843)
• 1945 » Bruno Frank, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)
• 1974 » Horace Lindrum, Australian snooker player (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Hatian anthropologist (b. 1898)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Peter
9. Petrus
10. Robert
11. Jacobus
12. Adrianus
13. Hendrikus
14. Jacob
15. John
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Petronella
9. Adriana
10. Hendrika
11. Margaretha
12. Marianne
13. Jacoba
14. Yvonne
15. Geertruida
16. Linda

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
• January 6 » Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.
• February 6 » The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
• February 7 » Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are massacred by South Korean forces.
• June 23 » The ocean liner SS United States is christened and launched.
• November 2 » Six thousand British troops arrive in Suez after the Egyptian government abrogates the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936.
• November 15 » Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.

The temperature on June 20, 1951 was between 4.9 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.